Jury finds woman guilty of managing brothels

A 39-YEAR-OLD Cork woman yesterday became the third person to be implicated in the managing of one of the country’s most sophisticated brothel operations.

Despite claims by her defence counsel that the case against Caroline O’Leary was “one of the thinnest cases I have ever seen put forward by the Director of Public Prosecutions” the jury of 12 men still found the Watergrasshill woman guilty of seven charges relating to the management of brothels in Cork city.

However, she was cleared of 43 counts of allegedly organising prostitution and the keeping of the brothels at 26 John Street and 18 Grafton Street, Cork, on dates between January 2006 and May 2007.